Another vet visit- Lily-Rose is on 3 legs

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Honest to god, my animals at the moment.

Within half an hour of coming back from her walk last night, Lily-Rose was acting strangely and seemed very down. The next thing we know, she’s on 3 legs and holding her right hind leg up and out. Settled her on the couch and Dad slept downstairs with her. We are off to the vet this morning. She’s very distressed and down. There’s nothing obvious to see, and I’ve checked her leg and foot all over. but I’ve got a horrible feeling it might be her cruciate ligament.
Fingers crossed it’s just something minor and she’s just being a drama queen!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

{{{{{{Vibes}}}}}} to Lily-Rose

Sometimes life as an owner of multiple pets trundles on just fine, other times it can happen that it feels like you're going in shuttle traffic with different pets to the vet. Fingers crossed she's soon feeling better again.

{{{{Hugs}}}}

 

[Bradsmum]

 

[Errin Paddywack]

My Jesse was like this and yet sound again by next day. I was convinced it was cruciate.

 

[MerryMaxmas]

Fingers crossed its something and nothing, it does sound like a cruciate ligament though

 

[Birker2020]

Honest to god, my animals at the moment.

Within half an hour of coming back from her walk last night, Lily-Rose was acting strangely and seemed very down. The next thing we know, she’s on 3 legs and holding her right hind leg up and out. Settled her on the couch and Dad slept downstairs with her. We are off to the vet this morning. She’s very distressed and down. There’s nothing obvious to see, and I’ve checked her leg and foot all over. but I’ve got a horrible feeling it might be her cruciate ligament.
Fingers crossed it’s just something minor and she’s just being a drama queen!

OMG its awful when that happens. It happened to our last beagle bitch walking over the fields, one minute she was fine, next minute on the floor screaming. We think she got bitten by a snake of some sort. Dad had to carry her back to the house whilst partner got the car. She was totally none weight bearing. Zoomed to the out of hours vets, by the time she got on the table she was weight bearing and trying to jump off the table (hated the vets). Cost a fortune and never found out what it was. Trotted out of the vets like a greyhound .

Hope its not CL for you.

 

[splashgirl45]

Could it be pulled muscle? My lurcher is a bit of a loon and has been the same with a hind leg , I just massage the muscle and he limps for a couple of steps and is then ok. Luckily I have had lurchers so know this can happen with them

 

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Back from the vets.
She screamed when we were called in and she was lifted up (was sitting on mums knee) so the vet got to see her reaction at least!
She’s completely non-weight bearing, but the vet was able to move the leg without any reaction. She said she can’t rule out cruciate problems, because some dogs tense up so much that the don’t respond to the movements needed to test it, so they would have to repeat it under sedation.
Her knee is popping in and out slightly, a grade 1, but she doesn’t think this is related to current issue. Definitely not neurological.
Options were to sedate (or possible GA) and X-ray the back legs and pelvis, or to send her home with pain relief and anti inflams and give her 48 hours complete rest and if no better by Thursday, she will go back for X-rays.
Because the vet didn’t find anything obviously awful, we’ve opted to bring her home on pain relief for a couple of days and then see where we are on Thursday. They will try and fit her in on Friday for X-rays if needed. If nothing shows on X-rays then it would be soft tissue so scans would be next. Thankfully she is insured.

Lily-Rose is a particularly dramatic dog who doesn’t cope well with pain, so we are hoping it’s something muscular. She’s on strict rest, being carried to the garden etc. Thankfully her favourite thing is to sleep and do as little as possible, so she shouldn’t find resting too traumatic!

 

[oldandgold]

I think I would have done the same, hope that the pain relief and anti inflams do their job. Fingers crossed for Lily-Rose

 

[FinnishLapphund]

At least they didn't immediately find some big, and bad problem. Fingers crossed that it starts to self-heal with the few days rest (+ with the help of the painkillers/anti inflams stuff).

 

[Ratface]

I hope that the pain relief and the ant-inflams do their thing, and that Lily-Rose is back to optimum lurcher health very quickly.
Many years ago, I had a lurcher who was equally dramatic about anything which was/could be/might be/had been hurting. Always took her to her favourite vet who she would bounce up to, entirely sound.
Good luck and well-being to Lily-Rose, you and your bank account!

 

[Birker2020]

Good luck, hope she gets better quickly.

 

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The difference between her and JD is unreal. JD just doesn’t stop or make a fuss for anything… she’d keep going if her legs were hanging off.

A couple of years ago Lily-Rose got a bee sting stuck in her lip and you’d have thought the vet and us were trying to murder her. It took 4 of us to get it out!

 

[Kunoichi73]

Fingers crossed she improves with medication. Poor thing!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Fingers crossed the box rest works!

 

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She’s still on 3 legs today but there’s a tentative attempt to put it down and the screaming and shaking has stopped.
She’s currently snoring her head off next to me

 

[scats]

A little update- she’s completely back to normal. By Thursday she was putting it down but doing the occasional skip, but yesterday and today she has returned to normal. Thank god!
Can only assume it was just a pulled muscle or something. She is a huge drama queen!

 

[Kunoichi73]

So glad to hear this.

 

[Parrotperson]

We had a horse on the yard who would out do most drama queens.

Came back from hunting on three legs. Wouldn’t put fourth down at all. Straight vet. Vet says ‘think it must be broken. Prepare yourself for bad outcome’. Friend in tears.

Since he was covered in mud we begin washing it off for exam. Within seconds leg is fine and he’s perfectly happy.

He didn’t like the mud!!!! Vet fell about laughing…..